Washboiler.



GEORGE J. HAOH, FREDERICK HAOH, AND HENRY BOSCH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

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I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 20, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE J. HAoE, FREDERICK HACH, and HENRY Boson, citi- Zens of the United States, and residents of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Washboilers, of which the f0 lowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in wash boilers and consists inthe novel arrangement, construction and combination of parts as will be fully hereinafter described and claimed. I

The object of our invention is to construct a wash boiler com rising an inner skeleton member in which t e clothes are placed and by which the same may be elevated above the boiler to permit the same to drain preparatory to removing the clothes from the member.

A further object of our invention is to provide an innerfskeleton member having apair of elevating handles so constructed asto be placed in position over the edge or rim of the oiler to support the skeleton member in an elevated position to permit the contents to drain.

Figure 1 is a central sectional view of our complete invention showing the skeleton member in lowered position. Fig. 2 is a similar view to Fig. 1 with the skeleton mem her in its elevated position. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the skeleton member with arts broken away showing the-hooks by w ich the member is supported on the edge of the boiler.

In the construction of our invention, we provide a wash boiler 4 which is of the ordinary construction and in said boiler is laced a skeleton member 5 constructed in form and of such shape as to freely fit within the boiler 4. The skeleton member is preferably com osed of strips of material 6 secured at t lieir upper ends to a rod 7, and to said strips 6 are securely fastened by rivets or the like, strips 8 arranged parallel with the rod 7 and extending around the entire circumference of the skeleton member. The strips 9 forming the end members are bent at the bottom forming horizontal strips 10 which are also securely fastened to the strips 6. I

asket I At each end of the skeleton member and secured to the bottom strip 8, are loops 11 in which are retained hooks 12, the said hooks being formed as shown in the drawin s and constructed of a single strand of wire, t e u per end of said hooks being fastened in t e loops 13 formed on the ends of the strap handles 14. The up er ends of said strap handles are suitably ent forming loops 15 and in said loops are retained hooks 16. The hooks 16 are designed to contact with the rim 17 of the wash boiler when the skeleton member is in its lowered position. The said hooks 16 act as handles, by which the skeleton member together with the contents placed therein can be elevated until the hooks 12 come in alinement with the rim 17 of the boiler, then the strap handles are placed in a osition as shown in Fig. 2 bringing the ooks 12 in contact with the rim 17 which will retain the skeleton member in an elevated position as shown in Fig. 2, and by permitting the skeleton member to remain in this position, the clothes contained in the skeleton member will be relieved of the boiling water contained in the boiler and permit the same to readily cool preparatory to the removal of the same.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim is:

In a device of the class described, the combination with a wash boiler of a clothes su orting frame adapted to fit within t e boiler, two eyes, one mounted at each end of the frame, a semi-circular hook pvotally mounted at one end thereof in eac of said eyes, a strap handle 'pivotally connected with the other end of each of said hooks, and supporting hooks attached to the outer ends of said strap handles, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE J. HAOH. FREDERICK HAOH. HENRY BOSCH.

Witnesses:

ALFRED A. EIoKs, WALTER O. STEIN. 

